Writing Prompt

HOPEfully the journey is easy on you

IS gentle on your aching joints

THE miles is a big long number

BRIDG(E)ing you from point to point

BETWEEN sharp cliffs and low valleys

DESPAIR may haunt your every turn

AND depression bites. So find that light. the

JOY and pray for safe return...

Everything seems to be pointless

In the morning light, I see the rain

I try hard to look away, try to refrain

But when my spirit loses its way

I can’t be brave, can’t chase the fear away.

I need light to guide my way.

I need a hand to rise me again.

I need a song to play in my head.

I need to trust in a better day.

We hide in fear, avoid the words,

We cry to the silence,

without our voice being...

Down on my knees for you

They ached oh so much

Oh so much

Praying

Over and over

Again and again

One two three

One two three

Blink breathe

Blink breathe

Hoping that my dreams shall come true

Tears staining my cheeks

Ignorant to the sad truth

The painful reality

There’s no such thing as equality

No such thing as freedom

Peace

They are merely myths

And that’s when it hit me

Hope i...

At the top of the mountain

People gaze down below

Finding success in the big achievements that made them grow

When it took three days to climb up hill

A backpack on their back

With what little food and water

Can they share what they have left?

Hope is the bridge

Between the mountain and the valley

When it comes to despair and joy

It simply cannot be tallied...

people say that god tests the one’s he loves,even if it inflicts pain

Maybe that’s true

But what if I don’t believe in god?

I keep having bad experiences just like that for no reason? Just suffering for the sake of suffering?

I always found the concept of past lives interesting because what if it was true

And “god” keeps putting me in these situations over and over with the same people yo learn ...

I am both amused and disheartened

about the debate

Everyone laughs about what he said

But it’s scary

people still support him anyway

He has this power

To say anything he wants

And no one still stop him

Hope really is the bridge

between despair and joy

I’m hopeful

But also worried

What a time to live in America

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(It funny in a bad way that a presidential candidate would ever say things l...

Despair and joy are

Closer than you think

There is one thing that

Bridges them together

It’s that one thing

That people try not to

Have too much of

It can lead you into being

Strong, other times it can

Lead you into being weak

Sometimes when it’s false

It does more help than when

It’s real

Hope is the bridge

Between despair and joy...

They say, “Hope is the bridge

Between despair and joy,”

But what would happen if

The bridges start to fall?

They say when you come to

A bridge, you should cross it,

But I grew up hearing

A different saying.

It was, “We’ll burn that bridge

Whenever we get there.”

So I burned all of mine,

Every last one of them.

If there’s nothing left now,

It’s probably my fault.

I know I can’t fix it, ...

“Hope is the bridge

between despair and joy.”

A quote so true especially

about a certain boy.

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Stop being smart,

that’s too attractive—

Stop having a heart,

I don’t think my heart can take it.

Stop smiling and joking,

you’re literally so fine—

Stop grinning and talking

with that smooth, deep voice

of yours.

Stop the humor,

I’ve already fallen.

Stop the rumors,

I can’t handle

hearing y...

Hope is the bridge between despair and joy. Hope allows a lot,

But it also derails

And as it unravels,

The joy begins to rot

And you’re back to despair

But it can’t be repaired

Life isn’t fair

And maybe God doesn’t care.

Don’t give me hope and then take it away,

Do not get up and leave

when you’ve told me you’d stay.

I can’t take any more pain,

I’m sorry to complain,

But I cannot breathe

When I’...